In addition to her family home on the outskirts of Boston, Turbeville also spent her summers in their vacation home in Ogunquit in Maine.Īccording to Turbeville, her work was deeply inspired by her childhood: 'I am like a child, I must manage it every hour of every day.' She was a student at Brimmer and May School in the Bay of Boston, and has always cited as her first sources of inspiration the narrow cobble streets, Louisburg Square, snow and tinted windows. This familial community, which cultivated its members' intellectual superiority through frequent trips to Boston's opera and cinemas, also suffered from this exile in the suburbs.ĭeborah had an older brother called Tom, who lived in New York on Riverside Drive at the same time Deborah was living there. Deborah's father, who was from Texas, also lived in the house. She was born in 1932 in Stoneham, Massachusetts, into a wealthy family in New England that desired to be both distinguished and isolated, but paradoxically suffered from this isolation.ĭeborah's mother and aunts inherited a large house from her paternal grandfather, isolated in the periphery of Boston. Her photographs appeared in numerous publications and fashion advertisements, including ads for Bloomingdale's, Bruno Magli, Nike, Ralph Lauren and Macy's. Although she started out as a fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar, she became a photographer in the 1970s.

Deborah Lou Turbeville (J– October 24, 2013) was an American fashion photographer.

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